Tehran, the royal palace of Iran.

King Reza Khan was anxiously walking around, and at this time, his heart was quite uneasy.

Qazvin is Tehran's western gate, and if Qazvin cannot achieve a crucial victory, the entire Iranian kingdom will be in danger.

Suddenly, he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and then he saw Prime Minister Mansour walking in with the fastest pace, shouting as he went: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have won a great victory in Qazvin, we have completely annihilated a Soviet cavalry division and captured more than 2,000 people!" ”

In an instant, King Reza Khan rejoiced: "Great, great! ”

The great victory in Qazvin is of great commemorative significance, the Soviet army drove straight in, invincible, and finally, in Qazvin, the cavalry division that was advancing lightly against the enemy accidentally fell into the encirclement and was finally annihilated, and the Soviets' plan to quickly destroy Iran was aborted.

And that's just the beginning!

Like other places, Tabriz was on the verge of collapse in the Soviet offensive, and Novikov became cautious after receiving news from Gazvin.

It is clear that the Iranians are not as weak as they are now, and it is not worth it for them to set up an ambush and destroy one of their own cavalry divisions.

Originally, Novikov also ordered his 1st Mountain Cavalry Division to rush to reinforce the 23rd Cavalry Division, but now, he immediately calmed down and ordered the 23rd Cavalry Division to temporarily stop advancing!

I didn't have to wait long, and in the middle of the night, the separate 44th Tank Brigade finally arrived.

In the early stage of the attack, it relied on the cavalry to attack quickly in the mountains, but even if the cavalry dragged the horse-drawn machine guns, the firepower was still insufficient, so behind them, the tank brigade also crossed the border, but the tank brigade was not as fast as the cavalry in the process of marching.

It was enough that they were going to rush to the battlefield during the siege of Tehran, and as soon as the tanks appeared outside, see if the Iranians surrendered or not!

And now, with the arrival of the 44th Separate Tank Brigade, General Novikov has regained confidence, and with the tank brigade and cavalry division, he embarked on his own road of no return.

Go to Qazvin, and then attack Tehran!

With the continuous expansion of Soviet tank production, it is finally possible to re-equip other units, for example, the current independent 44 tank brigade, which has completely completed the new re-equipping.

The 44th Tank Brigade has two tank battalions, one T34 tank at the battalion headquarters, three companies per battalion, five KV1 tanks in one company, seven T34 tanks in two companies, 10 light tanks in three companies, and a motorized infantry battalion.

For the rest, there are reconnaissance companies, maintenance companies, transport companies, sanitary platoons, and so on.

The brigade is 1,471 people, equipped with 20 light tanks, 16 T34 tanks, 10 KV tanks, 156 military trucks, 4 45-mm anti-tank guns, and 8 82-mm mortars.

These are all data on paper, and in actual operations, it is difficult to match the entire brigade, but the 44 Tank Brigade is a completely full tank brigade, and they are the brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness in the entire Central Asian Military Region.

Brigade commander Dmitry Lav, sitting in his T-34 tank, his body bumping with the tank, at the same time, looking at his own marching map.

The tank could not take the mountain path, so he could only take the main road, but fortunately in front of them was the cavalry unit, which could give them early warning, and now, what he was most worried about was being ambushed by the opponent's large army, just like the cavalry division that was killed.

It took almost a whole day, and finally, they also made it to the Godasco Valley.

The stones blocking the valley were removed, and on the peak at the top of the valley, a sentinel had gone up in advance to make sure that there was no ambush there.

The whole valley was full of stench, flies were flying, and as far as the eye could see, there were corpses of the war dead everywhere, and even the corpse fortifications were still laid as they were.

Looking at all this, all the Soviet soldiers were furious, these hateful Iranians, after the battle, did not even bury their bodies!

This is the greatest disrespect to the dead!

"The brigade commander, General Novikov ordered us, quickly through the valley and not stop." Dmitrylav tried to stay, but was stopped by an order from a radio hand.

Quickly through the valley, they also have a hard time, now, they don't have time to bury the body, they have to quickly go to support, fight Qazvin, fight Tehran, and when Tehran is solved, they must drive the citizens of Tehran to bury the body here!

Dmitrylav clenched his fists, he hid his anger, led the troops, passed through the gorge, he did not look out again, that would make him angry.

Before the sun was about to set, the whole army finally came to the outside of Qazvin.

The cavalry did not enter the city immediately, but only surrounded the surroundings, and General Novikov's face was full of anxiety.

Qazvin is the western gate of Tehran, and the Soviet Union must take Qazvin before it can advance to Tehran, and now, he seems to have a premonition that this battle will not be as smooth as before.

When he saw his tank troops coming, General Novikov relaxed a little: "Major Dmitrylav, you have arrived in time, we will rest outside for a while, and tomorrow morning, we will attack the city!" ”

It is taboo to enter the city at night, and under the cover of night and buildings, the other side is likely to carry out a sneak attack on the Soviet troops, for the Soviet troops, unexpected casualties cannot occur again, they must be careful.

"Yes." Dmitrylav immediately replied, saluted General Novikov, and went down to prepare.

Along the way, the tank also needs to be maintained, check the tracks, artillery, refueling, etc., and it is ready tonight, just in time for the attack tomorrow.

After a day's journey, the tankers felt that their bodies were about to fall apart, but they were still meticulously maintained, and if something broke down during the battle, it would be a big trouble.

When they finished the maintenance and refueled, everyone was exhausted, and they found a random place, lay down and fell asleep.

Tank crews, who look majestic, are actually quite a hard job.

At this time, almost as they thought, in the headquarters in the city of Qazvin, the German defense master Moder, was pondering the map, and when he raised his head, he said to the generals present: "I think we can organize a night attack!" ”